tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20378665534653458902019-02-09T04:28:50.399-08:00Retroality™: Refreshing Reality with a Retro Twist™your one-stop, retro-pop news and views reality check ... dished up with a side o' witCHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-54011759973360446002015-02-04T10:57:00.000-08:002015-02-04T10:57:26.861-08:00Check out my new, official site: ChrisMann.TV
Here it is, in all its self-promo glory : ) ... ChrisMann.TVCHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-7095454280482841252014-08-14T14:40:00.000-07:002014-08-14T15:36:42.592-07:00Nourishing the body, mind and soul: My new WellBella cover-story interviews with three motivational foodies
Bob Harper (The Biggest Loser trainer and Skinny Meals author):http://basicmedia.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vwb14/i20/p16
Lisa "Hungry Girl" Lillian:http://basicmedia.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vwb14/i18/p32
Rainbeau Mars (Hollywood-based yogi and holistic foodie): http://basicmedia.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vwb14/i21/p36
CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-42317107860739399452014-05-04T16:34:00.000-07:002014-05-04T16:34:44.852-07:00My new print & video interview with spiritual thought leader/"Year of Miracles" author Marianne Williamson
Read the whole interview with Marianne in the May issue of WellBella here
CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-46012041945852895192014-05-04T15:57:00.000-07:002014-05-04T15:57:26.263-07:00Calm thyself: My new WellBella cover-story interview with inspirational "RHONY" star/author Aviva Drescher
An accident at the age of 6 left the beautiful blond—and “Real Housewives” costar—with an unexpected obstacle. But that wasn’t about to hold her back from living the life she imagined.
Read the whole story here:
http://basicmedia.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vwb14/i7/p26
CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-43402958711679247682014-03-23T16:27:00.000-07:002014-03-24T12:51:29.178-07:00My new Wellbella TV and magazine interview with "Facts of Life" star & "Survivor" finalist Lisa Whelchel
Read the digital version of the April issue here.
I'm proud to share my new print and video interviews with The Facts of Life actress, author and Survivor finalist Lisa Whelchel for the April issue of WellBella magazine. For the first time ever, we have produced an on-camera companion interview with our cover celebrity for WellBella TV. Some of these clips, telling Lisa's inspiring CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-180729189031095802014-02-23T17:41:00.002-08:002014-02-23T18:55:18.568-08:00Outtakes from my new Muscle & Body interview with Olympic icon-turned-broadcaster, fitness inspiration, philanthropist & ever-spirited performer Apolo Ohno
http://www.muscleandbodymag.com/
As the Sochi Games come to a close, what better time to look back at the amazing career trajectory of America's most decorated Winter Olympian, Apolo Anton Ohno. I had the opportunity to chat with Apolo again for Muscle and Body magazine. which published two versions (above and below) of this Icon interview for its February 2014 issue.
But we CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-56251500281713303802014-02-22T18:31:00.004-08:002014-02-22T19:44:18.055-08:00Catching up ... a gallery of healthy celeb cover stories from the last year (where did 2013 go?!?)2013 was a blur for many -- and my year was no exception. Between writing a screenplay and a book, developing a sitcom, interviewing some major sports icons, penning a slew of health and wellness stories and now (phew!) helping produce celeb wellness video interviews/webisodes and planning an exciting new online destination, I've had little time to blog here.
http://basicmedia.imirus.com/CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-30603432781044946802014-02-03T00:09:00.000-08:002014-02-03T01:08:10.824-08:00Buy this book! "Backstage at 'The Price is Right': Memoirs of a Barker's Beauty" by Kathleen Bradley
Though we're technically on hiatus here at Retroality.TV until sometime this spring, I wanted to take this opportunity to give a shout out to model-actress-singer-entrepeneur and now author Kathleen Bradley. The first black Barker's Beauty (1990-2000) just released her new tell-all book, Backstage at The Price is Right: Memoirs of a Barker Beauty -- and it is a sexy, eye-opening CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-26170764340664287432014-01-05T15:46:00.000-08:002014-01-05T15:46:16.330-08:00My new interview with POP SPEAKING!
So honored to share this fun and probing new interview I just did for the insightful and entertaining blog Pop Speaking. Thanks so much to Ms. Gaynor Paynter for the opportunity to share some of my personal stories about loving Three's Company and meeting and interviewing its stars, including the late, great John Ritter This was quite a trip back for me -- I got, like, deep and cathartic and CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-33416191159602242982013-09-17T01:26:00.000-07:002013-09-18T01:27:46.483-07:00Happy 65th birthday, John Ritter!
Your fall-down-funny comedy and goodwill forever dance in our hearts.CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-62760157148471280172013-08-31T23:50:00.001-07:002013-09-10T00:57:15.861-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 22! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Beth Maitland (pt 2 of 2), on loving Jeanne Cooper, enjoying horses with Jess Walton, not embracing Brenda Dickson's new "hurtful" memoir; and: "stairway to heaven" dreams
Listen to episode 22 of "Reimagine That!" here
Beth Maitland (pt 2 of 2) ... "Rethinking the Drama, Part 2" ... In this candid and revealing conclusion of her exclusive interview, Emmy-winning actress-turned-author and Drama Queen Bee creative-living expert Beth Maitland opens up in depth to "Reimagine That!" host and Retroality.TV founder Chris Mann about her dramatic and comedic experiences CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-27696364538225259152013-08-23T05:16:00.000-07:002013-08-23T05:16:47.911-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 21! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Beth Maitland (pt 1 of 2), on returning to "Y&R," reinventing herself as a creative-living brand/author, and seeing changing realities in daytime in the post-soaring-ratings (and egos!) era; also: intuitive "Reawakenings" dream
Listen to the podcast here
Beth Maitland (pt 1 of 2) ... "Rethinking the Drama" ... In this exclusive and candid interview, Emmy-winning actress, author and Drama Queen Bee creative living expert Beth Maitland opens up in depth to "Reimagine That!" host and Retroality.TV founder Chris Mann about her three-decade-plus tenure asTraci Abbott Connelly on CBS's "The Young and the Restless." CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-33370801797559561772013-06-16T01:23:00.000-07:002013-06-16T01:23:44.524-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 20! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Jaime Lyn Bauer (part 2 of 2), on William Bell, possibly returning to "The Young and the Restless," reinventing herself in the financial planning sphere; also: Comfort TV blogger & TV historian David Hofstede; "new vista" dreams
Click here to hear the podcast!
In the conclusion of her in-depth, emotional interview, actress Jaime Lyn Bauer opens up to "Reimagine That!" host and Retroality.TV editor Chris Mann about her at times complicated working relationship with late "Young and the Restless" creator William Bell, her 2002 return to the CBS soap and the possibility of reprising her iconic role of prolific author CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-41865331641468935412013-05-28T01:37:00.001-07:002013-05-28T01:40:29.485-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 19! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Jaime Lyn Bauer (part 1 of 2), on loving the late Jeanne Cooper, developing Lorie Brooks, experiencing "Y&R" fame, returning to "DOOL"; also: "Women's Eye" host Stacey Gualandi
Hear episode 19 of "Reimagine That!" here
Jaime Lyn Bauer (pt 1 of 2) ... In this exclusive, in-depth and at times emotional interview, iconic soap starJaime Lyn Bauer opens up to "Reimagine That!" host and Retroality.TV editor Chris Mann about her love for the late Jeanne Cooper, her experiences with TV's Katherine Chancellor behind-the-scenes at "The Young & the Restless" and in the play "CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-6086901523346078412013-03-24T06:01:00.000-07:002013-03-24T06:01:36.186-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 18! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Morgan Brittany (part 2 of 2), spills on her "Dallas" co-stars (and the TNT reboot), surviving Hollywood as a child actor and reinventing herself yet again as a Politichick; also: Chris's '90s Madonna-toxic cautionary dream!
Click here to listen to the podcast!
In the conclusion of her two-part exclusiveRetroality.TVinterview, child star-turned-Dallasdiva Morgan Brittany tells "Reimagine That!" host Chris Mann how her hardships as a child actress and her family's breadwinner shaped her as a woman who not only would survive Hollywood (including Dallas' ill-fated dream season) but also hold her own as a conservativeCHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-80764803206017052972013-03-20T16:02:00.000-07:002013-03-20T16:21:27.964-07:00Waxing Nostalgic ... Reminiscing about writing my new Old Hollywood book "The Day the Stars Stood Still: A Memoir about Logan Fleming, Top Wax Artist for Movieland Wax Museum" (BearManor)
The author and her memoir. For more about Suzanne,
check out her blog Ferry Tales.
Guest column
By Suzanne
Sumner Ferry
Author, Blogger,
Old Hollywood expert
It was an amazing revelation to learn that Mae West really COULD undulate her bosom (the subject of my memoir, Movieland's premiere wax artist and creative director Mr. Logan Fleming, saw it in person in her own bedroom!), CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-20832052872845770042013-03-08T08:09:00.000-08:002013-03-12T19:24:30.967-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 17! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Morgan Brittany, opens up on a possible return to "Dallas," remembering Larry Hagman. Also: TV Guide editor William Keck on J.R.'s funeral, Victoria Principal's decision not to revive Pam Ewing; & a Texas-size dream dissected
Click here to listen to the podcast!
Episode 17, "Reviving TV Villainy" ... In the first of her two-part exclusive Retroality.TV interview, child star-turned-Dallas diva Morgan Brittany tells "Reimagine That!" host Chris Mann about the possibility of returning to Southfork -- in TNT's hot revival of the legendary soap -- as primetime's original queen of mean, Katherine Wentworth.
The CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-25652861594113974632013-02-01T06:40:00.001-08:002013-03-12T19:25:21.793-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 16! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Lara Jill Miller, opens up about "Gimme a Break!," loving Nell Carter and giving life to various animated kids and creatures; also: Normand Authier's reimagined reality and Yvonne Ryba's crystal-clear dream interpretation
Click here to listen to the podcast!
Season 2 premiere, episode 16, "Re-envisioning Your Voice" ... In the Eighties, after a stint on Broadway with Dick Van Dyke in "The Music Man,' Lara Jill Miller grew up before our eyes as Nell Carter's sweet-faced "little girl" Samantha Kinisky on the hit NBC sitcom "Gimme a Break!" In the Nineties she went back to the East Coast, earned a law degree andCHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-66388993537506232512013-01-25T00:57:00.000-08:002013-02-18T18:47:48.176-08:00Exclusive sneak peak: My interview with "Dallas" star Linda Gray in the Feburary issue of WellBella
My exclusive interview with the lovely Linda Gray, who's kicking butts and taking names as the stronger, wiser Sue Ellen in TNT's revival of Dallas. The magazine is available nationally at GNC stores on February 1 and at Wellbella.comCHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-76029405003194862432012-09-28T00:51:00.000-07:002012-10-03T00:46:26.071-07:00NEW: My WellBella interview with Suzanne Somers!
basicmedia.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vwb12/i10/
and http://www.wellbella.com/healthy-celebs/blonde-bombshell/CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-737370257488570682012-09-02T17:13:00.000-07:002012-09-02T17:20:09.272-07:00NEW: My Wellbella print/podcast interview with "Rizzoli & Isles" star Sasha Alexander, who spills on her TNT series and mother-in-law Sophia Loren!
http://basicmedia.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vwb12/i9/
Check out my new print and podcast interview with the effervescent, eco-savvy actress. And while you're at it, check out the snazzy new Wellbella website -- which includes many of my healthy celebrity cover stories for the magazine. (Coming in October: My in-depth Wellbella interview with Suzanne Somers!)
http://wellbella.com
CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-91675580083806750702012-08-01T16:52:00.000-07:002012-08-01T16:52:28.164-07:00Check out my new cover stories on supermodel Carol Alt and Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian (and eight other Olympic athletes!)
In the July issues of Muscle & Body and Wellbella magazines, available nationally through GNC stores.CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-85607678956232473752012-06-25T03:52:00.000-07:002013-03-24T15:59:06.873-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 13! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guests: Greg Lott (Part 3 of 3), remembers his longtime secret love, Farrah Fawcett; and "Retired at 35" star Johnathan McClain on his Funny or Die videos, his "Happy Days" connection and conjuring his "inner Leather"
Greg Lott, Pt 3; "Retired at 35" star Johnathan McClain ... It's a "Reimagine That!" double matinee, featuring lively interviews with TV Land's "Retired at 35" star Johnathan McClain and, in part three of his three-part Retroality.TV exclusive, Farrah Fawcett's longtime secret lover, Greg Lott.
First, McClain spills on the second season of "Retired at 35," premiering June 26 on TV Land. The CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-27893476859489637142012-06-17T21:41:00.000-07:002012-06-17T21:42:44.316-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 12! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Greg Lott (Part 2 of 3), sounds off on Farrah Fawcett estate controversies, Ryan O'Neal and Alana Stewart ALSO: Texas-sized dreams, "Dallas" 2.0, young "Three's Company" fans
In the second of three parts, Greg Lott opens up exclusively to Retroality.TV about his secret love affair with the late Farrah Fawcett, whom he first romanced in the mid-1960s during their tenure at the University of Texas.
Here, Lott tells how he was cut out of the TV angel's life -- reportedly by Ryan O'Neal -- two and a half months before the iconic actress succumbed to cancer on June 25,CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037866553465345890.post-21092414859989136682012-05-30T02:52:00.000-07:002012-06-04T02:21:38.114-07:00Retroality's "Reimagine That!" podcast, episode 11! ............................................................ Chris Mann's special guest, Greg Lott, sounds off on his secret 11-year love affair with Farrah Fawcett and disputes Ryan O'Neal's new book "Both of Us" ALSO: Chris's "Groundhog Day"-esque dream
Greg Lott, Pt. 1 ... Farrah Fawcett's secret longtime lover, Greg Lott, opens up in this Retroality.TV exclusive about Ryan O'Neal's contentious new tell-all book, "Both of Us." Here, in the first segment of his explosive three-part interview, Lott -- who famously confronted O'Neal in public on camera after the "Love Story" star reportedly barred Lott from contacting Farrah in her final months CHRIS MANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00449019597162195533noreply@blogger.com1